Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach

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Paco Calvo, Antoni Gomila
Elsevier, Aug 15, 2008 - Computers - 476 pages
The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation to explain cognition. The handbook serves as a valuable companion for readers interested in foundational aspects of cognitive science, and neuroscience and the philosophy of mind. The handbook begins with an introduction to embodied cognitive science, and then breaks up the chapters into separate sections on conceptual issues, formal approaches, embodiment in perception and action, embodiment from an artificial perspective, embodied meaning, and emotion and consciousness. Contributors to the book represent research overviews from around the globe including the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
 

Contents

TOWARD AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
1
The Interactive Architecture of Cognition Conceptual Issues
27
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
79
PERCEIVING AND ACTING
159
A DYNAMIC BRAIN
219
EMBODIED MEANING
291
SCALINGUP
373
EMOTION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
437
INDEX
467
COLOR PLATES
477
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